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Title

The impact of the Edwardian castles in Wales : the proceedings of a conference held at Bangor University, 7-9 September 2007 / edited by Diane M. Williams and John R. Kenyon.

Publication

• Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, [2010]
• ©2010

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Additional Authors

• Williams, Diane M.
• Kenyon, John R.
• Bangor University, host institution.

Description

x, 211, 16 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans, plates; 29 cm

Summary

• "The castles built by King Edward I in north Wales following two wars and a Welsh uprising (1277, 1282-83 and 1294-95) had a profound impact on Welsh history, landscape, and the history of castles. 2007 marked the seventh centenary of the death of Edward I, and a conference was held to review recent scholarship and to rethink the effect that their building had on Wales, past, present and future. Building upon the seminal work of Arnold Taylor, whose study of the buildings and documentary evidence has been pivotal to Edwardian castle studies for more than fifty years, the volume includes papers which call into question the role of Master James of St George as the architect of the king's new castles; the role of Richard the Engineer, the nature of royal accommodation in the thirteenth century and a detailed look at how households worked, especially in the kitchen and accounting departments.
• New approaches to castle studies are encouraging a more holistic understanding of the Edwardian castles and their context and to this end papers consider their impact on Welsh society and its princes in the thirteenth century, notably Llywelyn ab Iorwerth (Fawr, the Great) and his grandson, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, prince of Wales. Their symbolism and meaning through the words of Welsh poets and the mythology behind Caernarfon Castle are also examined, so too is the role of Welshmen in Edward l's armies. The wider context is considered with papers on the Edwardian towns in Wales, the baronial castles in north Wales and Edward I in Scotland and Gascony. The castles still have powerful resonance and the Minister for Heritage in the Welsh Assembly Government considers their role and presentation in Wales today and in the future. Robert Liddiard concludes that the volume `not only takes our knowledge of the Edwardian castles forward, but also informs the study of castles in the British Isles'."--Jacket.

Subject

• Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307 > Relations with Welsh > Congresses
• Edward I, King of England, 1239-1307
• 1272-1536
• Castles > Wales > History > Congresses
• History
• Castles
• Relations with Welsh
• Burgen und Schlösser
• Wales > History > 1284-1536 > Congresses
• Great Britain > History > Edward I, 1272-1307 > Congresses
• Great Britain
• Wales
• Großbritannien
• Wales

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Edward I and Wales / Michael Prestwich -- From Llywelyn Ap Gruffudd to Edward I: expansionist rulers and Welsh society in thirteenth-century Gwynedd / David Stephenson -- Gwynedd before and after the conquest / David Longley -- The castles of the princes of Gwynedd / Lawrence Butler -- James of St George / Nicola Coldstream -- The life and career of Richard the Engineer / Rick Turner -- Builth castle and Aberystwyth Castle 1277-1307 / David Browne -- The king's accommodation at his castles / Jeremy Ashbee -- Food supply and preparation at the Edwardian castles / Peter Brears -- The landscapes of Edward's new towns: their planning and design / Keith D. Lilley -- The building stones of the Edwardian castles / Graham Lott -- "Twr dewr gwncwerwr" ("a brave conqueror's tower") Welsh poetic responses to the Edwardian castles / Dylan Foster Evans -- Caernarfon Castle and its mythology / Abigail Wheatley -- The conservation and restoration of Caernarfon Castle 1845-1912 / Richard Avent -- Arnold Taylor's contribution to the study of the Edwardian castles in Wales / John R. Kenyon -- The baronial castles of the Welsh conquest / John A.A. Goodall -- Edward I's building works in Gascony / Marc Morris -- Welshmen in the armies of Edward I / Adam Chapman -- Scottorum malleus: Edward I and Scotland / Chris Tabraham -- A research agenda for the Edwardian castles / Robert Liddiard -- King Edward I's castles in North Wales--now and tomorrow / Alun Ffred Jones AM.

ISBN

• 9781842173800
• 1842173804

LCCN

2009043939

OCLC

• ocn320801084
• 320801084
• SCSB-1534852

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library